The National Union of Food Industry Workers ( es, Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria de Alimentos, SINALTRAINAL) is a Colombian

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. The group has repeatedly tried to form unions in Colombia for workers of

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, a Colombian

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bottling company, and have documentation of many members or leaders being murdered, kidnapped, and tortured by

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paramilitary groups such as the AUC in order to prevent unionisation. They are a central focus of the ongoing

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Amnesty International (AI) report 27 August 2003 - fear for safety of SINALTRAINAL vice-president Juan Carlos Galvis *

AI report 23 September 2005 - fear for safety of SINALTRAINAL member José Onofre Esquivel Luna

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* http://www.sinaltrainal.org/ Trade unions in Colombia Food processing trade unions {{Colombia-stub

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